A Few Words About A few words about...™ Moonraker -- in Blu-ray (1 Viewer)

[Josh Steinberg]

My favorite Roger Moore Bond movies are Moonraker and The Man With The Golden Gun. I'll take those two over his more critically acclaimed ones any day!

 

[Osato]

My favorite Roger Moore Bond movies are Moonraker and The Man With The Golden Gun. I'll take those two over his more critically acclaimed ones any day!

I like those as well. Honestly I love all of the Moore 007 films. I still watch those a great deal.
Connery ones that I watch the most are thunderball and diamonds are forever.

I’m hoping we see something new for Moonraker and ohmss this year! An expanded Moonraker soundtrack would be great.
I was listening to the new expanded the world is not enough on today. Love it!

 

[TravisR]

The opening sequence of Moonraker is an incredible piece of stunt work.

 

[Osato]

The opening sequence of Moonraker is an incredible piece of stunt work.

Agreed!!

 

[Tommy R]

As a long time Bond fan Moonraker is quite a ways down on my list, but over the years I've grown to really appreciate certain elements. It has a GREAT music score. Beautiful locations and cinematography. Really cool set designs. As mentioned, great stunt work. For those reasons alone I'd at least say it's the best of the lower tier Bond films.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Just about every time the Bond producers opted to hire someone other than John Barry to try to sound more hip or current, it backfired - at least in terms of the longevity of the films. Watch the George Martin score in Live And Let Die, the Marvin Hamlisch score in The Spy Who Loved Me, or the Bill Conti score in For Your Eyes Only, and those are the things that most instantly and immediately date those films. All of the films are clearly products of their time and you'll never mistake, say, Thunderball for being something that was shot in 2000, but they have a certain timeless quality to them. But turn on Live And Let Die, and it's an early 70s movie and there's no escaping that. They lose some of their ability to transcend time when the score so clearly ties them to a certain era.

So Moonraker does better on that front by virtue of having John Barry's timeless score.

 

[Osato]

Just about every time the Bond producers opted to hire someone other than John Barry to try to sound more hip or current, it backfired - at least in terms of the longevity of the films. Watch the George Martin score in Live And Let Die, the Marvin Hamlisch score in The Spy Who Loved Me, or the Bill Conti score in For Your Eyes Only, and those are the things that most instantly and immediately date those films. All of the films are clearly products of their time and you'll never mistake, say, Thunderball for being something that was shot in 2000, but they have a certain timeless quality to them. But turn on Live And Let Die, and it's an early 70s movie and there's no escaping that. They lose some of their ability to transcend time when the score so clearly ties them to a certain era.

So Moonraker does better on that front by virtue of having John Barry's timeless score.

100% agreed.

Barry was so simple and repetitive with his themes. They are so memorable.

This podcast with Barry’s former agent is fantastic:
http://jamesbondradio.com/talking-john-barry-richard-craft-interview-the-music-of-bond-015/

 

[Osato]

Film review is great too:

http://jamesbondradio.com/moonraker-reviewed-podcast-049/

http://jamesbondradio.com/moonraker-reviewed-part-2-podcast-050/

 

[Osato]

Film review is great too:

http://jamesbondradio.com/moonraker-reviewed-podcast-049/

http://jamesbondradio.com/moonraker-reviewed-part-2-podcast-050/

 

[Osato]

Restoration of the Moonraker tv spots:

http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2019/01/01/Restoring-Film-at-The-007-Dossier

 

[Tommy R]

Just about every time the Bond producers opted to hire someone other than John Barry to try to sound more hip or current, it backfired - at least in terms of the longevity of the films. Watch the George Martin score in Live And Let Die, the Marvin Hamlisch score in The Spy Who Loved Me, or the Bill Conti score in For Your Eyes Only, and those are the things that most instantly and immediately date those films. All of the films are clearly products of their time and you'll never mistake, say, Thunderball for being something that was shot in 2000, but they have a certain timeless quality to them. But turn on Live And Let Die, and it's an early 70s movie and there's no escaping that. They lose some of their ability to transcend time when the score so clearly ties them to a certain era.

So Moonraker does better on that front by virtue of having John Barry's timeless score.

Oh man, Bill Conti's score is IMO the absolute WORST of the entire Bond series. I'm not all that crazy for TSWLM's score either. LALD, LTK and GE have likable scores, but nothing rivals a Barry score.

 

[Osato]

Oh man, Bill Conti's score is IMO the absolute WORST of the entire Bond series. I'm not all that crazy for TSWLM's score either. LALD, LTK and GE have likable scores, but nothing rivals a Barry score.

I enjoy the non Barry scores. They have some nice moments to them. Of course I prefer the Barry ones.

 

[Dick]

If they hadn't reintroduced that idiot sheriff from LALD, in an impossible and ridiculous coincidence, the film would have been boosted by about 25% in my opinion. The reappearance of Jaws didn't bother me as much, but was still silly in the end. The score and title song are very nice, though.

 

[Tino]

Looks great in 4K on iTunes.

 

[albert_m2]

So Moonraker does better on that front by virtue of having John Barry's timeless score.

So does Octopussy, which I think is a decent film that is brought down by its last act a bit.

 

[Worth]

It's silly as hell, but also a lot more fun than the recent po-faced films that seem intent on making Bond as miserable a character as possible.

 

[Peter Apruzzese]

Looks great in 4K on iTunes.

Is it a new transfer with a corrected main title sequence? (the Blu-ray edition has the titles windowboxed and compressed horizontally).

 

[Tino]

Is it a new transfer with a corrected main title sequence? (the Blu-ray edition has the titles windowboxed and compressed horizontally).

New transfer I believe. Didn’t notice that. I’ll confirm later.

 

[Worth]

Is it a new transfer with a corrected main title sequence? (the Blu-ray edition has the titles windowboxed and compressed horizontally).

I don't think it's a new transfer - I believe only the films that were done at 2K the first time around received new transfers - but the credits are no longer windowboxed.

 

[JoshZ]

I don't think it's a new transfer - I believe only the films that were done at 2K the first time around received new transfers - but the credits are no longer windowboxed.

How many of the Bond films are available in 4k on iTunes? All of them?

The squeezed and windowboxed credits on the Blu-rays infuriate me. Not to mention that more than half of the Blu-rays have poor video transfers.